End of Week 17

First off, in the garden, craftsmanship is getting much better! Check out how well one of our students can cut a hole in a piece of wood to make a fidget spinner!

Although we do need to clean up the tools when they fall on the ground!

The next planter box (#4 is getting built...)

Here are my plans for an experiment:

We are trying an experiment: a Miniature Greenhouse. Topic: Data Collection when growing cucumbers in a small Greenhouse. Mrs. Twenge gave us some cucumber seeds, so we planted them into an egg carton and will be tracking some temperature data during class time.

Here is a picture of getting the Arduino set up. You can visit our Arduino Temperature Circuit page to see exactly how to do this.

Once it was operational, we took the Arduino unit outside and set it up in the miniature greenhouse.

And another view:

Then we collected the temperature data for every 10 minutes starting at 12:29pm

You can go to our "Miniature Greenhouse" page to see more data.

Anyway, here are the pictures from setting this data collection up:

The Seeds

The Egg Carton with soil in it:

The numbered version:

Note: We planted one seed in each pocket for numbers 1-14. #15-24 have no seeds.

Here is the stand we made to hold the carton off of the ground so it would have good drainage.

Here is Thursday's Greenhouse data
Raw:


More Refined:

As we record data, we need to keep in mind the scales we use to record our numbers. Here is a little history lesson that will help guide some of our decisions.

Fahrenheit 

https://youtu.be/LgrXd0NM2y8

Celsius

https://youtu.be/rjht4oAByCI

and then a nice little video about conversion.

Fahrenheit to Celsius Conversion

https://youtu.be/lBfySdbFOiQ

We had Special Olympics on Wednesday! Check out our Santa Maria Times Article!

And our Panther Tales Article! (Needs Link)

Also for the future: What are the parts of plants called?